Health Care Financial Crisis: Strategies for Overcoming an Unholy Trinity

The key issues of the health care system are often conceptualized as involving three basic dimensions: 1) the quality of health care provided, 2) access to the health care system, and 3) the cost of health care. Good systems should provide high quality medicine to all of the population requiring health care at affordable prices. Such a system, somewhat fancifully, might be praised for having achieved a "holy trinity." Such praise, unfortunately, is little to be found in the contemporary wor...